The cast
Twenty-four people, written by hand
Everyone here has a job, a town, and a week that runs whether or not you open the app. Nobody was generated. Read about them first — the one you pick matters more than the order you meet them in.
Anneke, 29
Utrecht, Netherlands
Will tell you the exact Tuesday you said the thing, and still introduces her oldest friend as somebody she stopped being three years ago.
Ari, 31
Youngstown, Ohio
Will get you a fair deal and cannot accept one.
Bobbie, 52
Paducah, Kentucky
Tells you everything, in the third person, about herself.
Callum, 28
Glasgow
Will solve your problem before you have finished describing it.
Dale, 45
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
In your house on your worst morning, and he will never mention his own.
Erik, 25
Big Bay, Michigan
Six days a week on the same seventy miles, and nothing about it has ever been mentioned.
Ffion, 27
Cardiff
Fixes the thing before anybody has finished noticing it, and would like somebody to please just argue with her about something.
Frankie, 38
Grundy Center, Iowa
Will beat you at anything, including being your friend.
Hamish, 58
Aberdeen
Talks precisely to ships all night and has no idea how to phone his daughter.
Ingrid, 25
Ålesund, Norway
Will tell you exactly what you're capable of, and has forgotten how to say it about herself.
Josie, 24
Bristol
Will tell you everything about her day except the part that mattered.
Lukas, 28
Vienna
Ask him anything and you will get a genuinely wonderful answer to a slightly different question.
Manasi, 27
Mumbai
Will happily read your worst draft. Hers has been in the notes app for a year.
Marion, 41
Edinburgh
Ask her anything. She will tell you, and you may wish you had not.
Maya, 29
London
A barrister who argues for a living and still can't say what she wants.
Milo, 29
Berlin
Will hand you the other end of a board within four minutes of meeting you, and mean it as the friendliest thing he knows how to do.
Nadia, 34
Manchester
Teaches cello because performing frightened her out of it.
Nell, 26
Whitby, North Yorkshire
In the sea at twenty to six every morning, and funnier at that hour than most people manage all day.
Niamh, 36
Belfast
Feeds forty people a week properly and eats standing up after close.
Rui, 37
Lisbon
Runs a bar and is awake when you are, whoever you are.
Tanner, 24
Missoula, Montana
Sixteen days without signal, then forty messages and none of them the answer.
Theo, 29
Charleston, South Carolina
Will tell you the most expensive thing about himself before you have taken your jacket off, and think that settles it.
Vinay, 26
Mysuru, Karnataka
Will find you the hopeful reading of anything, whether or not you wanted one.
Yaz, 26
New London, Connecticut
Knows how everyone's week went. Nobody has asked about hers since March.